Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSStP.
Less than 200. 600 Of the 125, ooO,-
BOO heather women in India can read
Cardinal Manning has been pro-
NOTED to the vice-presidency of the
London Newspaper Fund
A profit of eight million forins
was Melted by the national library OF
Austria-HungarY last year.
A line was let down into an ex-
tinct crater at Molokai. Sandwich ISL
ands, a distance of three thousand five
hundred feet without reaching bottom.
Quito, in South America. is the
only CITY in the world ON the Equator,
and the sun rises and sets there at six
o'clock the year round--N r VT
ness.
Denmark is known as remarka-
bly, level country. Surveys of last sea-
son find only two points in the king
dom that reach an elevation of five
hundred and forty feet-Gotde's Rsete.
A Glasgow yacht destined for
perch fishing in South Australian wa
tiers, has been fitted with electrical ap-
paratus expected to light up the water
to the great depth of seventeen faith
oms.
Cyprus is proving to Great Britain
an expensive luxury, because, although
the income from revenue rises some
100000 above expenses, something
over $3.50, 900 has to be pad annually
as a subvention to Turkey Congreqa-
tionGlist.
In Liverpool cigar fastory, where
one thousand girls are enjoyed, fire
brigade, composed of thel operatives,
has been organized. TIE girls are
well differed and drilled. Ind at re-
cent blaze in the factory I'D efficient
service in subduing the fiahes--M O.
Times Democrat.
The project of connecting Italy
with Sicily by submarine tunnel is
again discussed. The estimated cost
of the work is over fourteeI millions of
dollars. The depth of thssea along
the proposed line is over fly hundred
feet The length of the tut mel would
probably not exceed five mies.-M =
Ledger.
-Buny1u Nanjio, now ppfessor of
Sanskrit at Toxic. has beenSent by his
monastery on a scientific an religious
mission to India. He went TO Oxford,
some years ago, to study Ssnskrit I'M
der Prof Max Muller, and received the
honorable degree of NJ. A, q leaving
England. He is the auther T several
learned works on Buddhism.
One of the newest and bst of the
many circuses in Paris has just
brought out an old proqction-a
Spanish fair with all its adjhcts, its
beggars, its mandolinlsts, itIpeasants
and merchants in costume, Its audi
ences and songs, and, to GROIN all, its
bull fight. This is one of he most
amusing and picturesque fectacles
seen in Paris for many years.
The monks of st. Bernfd, who
devoted themselves as ardeniy to the
study of science as to the Escue of
wayfaring men, have brougH the tele-
phone into their service of nfcy. The
famous hospice is now in Flephonic
communication with the Qhtine de
PROF. and the village of Sphere, as
also with the Cantine de FStinte and
the village of ST. Chemy, 4 the Ital-
ian side.-Brooktsn Easle
Mrs. Henry Woods gave is in
Highgate Cemetery, nea those of
George Eliot, Parepa Ros Frederic
Maurice, George Vandenho 81. Crabb
Robinson, Alaric A. WITS, Lord
L.yndhurst and the faith, mother
| and little daughter of Ch.es Dick
| ems. Near by, also, is til tomb of
Wombwell, the famous nenagerie
Snowman, surmounted by full sized
| lion in marble.-Boston Byet
Some odd residents be arrived
| at the Paris zoo. They ine1e three
striped paradoxure fromndian; a
Scoops owl, captured at se,ear Alden;
white-fronted heron, I'm Austria
liza; Stanley parakeet. rom West
Australia; a Burmeiste cariama,
Southwest Brazil; ack5ernothere,
from West Africa, reced i'm ex-
change, and two smews. e .'smews"
slightly troubled US, but paradox
ure. the Scoops owl, the lex sterno-
there, and the Burmeists cariama |
puzzle us entirely. Chico Times
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